Positive Emotions: Joy Quotes

Find a thoughtful selection of joy quotes celebrating gratitude, presence, and simple pleasures. These lines highlight how small moments can lift the spirit and invite a brighter outlook without dismissing life's challenges. Drawn from diverse voices, the quotes touch on kindness, playfulness, and resilience. Use them for journaling, sharing with friends, or anchoring a speech. Let them offer gentle encouragement as you cultivate positive emotions and notice the good woven into everyday routines.

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"Participate joyfully in the sorrows of the world. We cannot cure the world of sorrows, but we can choose to live in joy"

Joseph Campbell, Author

Joseph Campbell

"I still get wildly enthusiastic about little things... I play with leaves. I skip down the street and run against the wind"

Leo Buscaglia, Author

Leo Buscaglia

"I certainly wasn't happy. Happiness has to do with reason, and only reason earns it. What I was given was the thing you can't earn, and can't keep, and often don't even recognize at the time; I mean joy"

Ursula K. Le Guin, Writer

Ursula K. Le Guin

"In times of joy, all of us wished we possessed a tail we could wag"

W. H. Auden, Poet

W. H. Auden

"I sometimes wonder whether all pleasures are not substitutes for joy"

C. S. Lewis, Author

C. S. Lewis

"Find ecstasy in life; the mere sense of living is joy enough"

Emily Dickinson, Poet

Emily Dickinson

"Joy is not in things; it is in us"

Richard Wagner, Composer

Richard Wagner

"Things won are done, joy's soul lies in the doing"

William Shakespeare, Dramatist

William Shakespeare

"No man who has once heartily and wholly laughed can be altogether irreclaimably bad"

Thomas Carlyle, Writer

Thomas Carlyle

"To have joy one must share it. Happiness was born a twin"

Lord Byron, Poet

Lord Byron

"The walls we build around us to keep sadness out also keeps out the joy"

Jim Rohn, Businessman

Jim Rohn

"A good laugh is sunshine in the house"

William Makepeace Thackeray, Novelist

William Makepeace Thackeray

"Surprise is the greatest gift which life can grant us"

Boris Pasternak, Novelist

Boris Pasternak

"Pleasure usually takes the form of me and now; joy is us and always"

Marvin J. Ashton, Clergyman

"It pleases me that people can be interactive"

Tracey Emin, Artist

Tracey Emin

"I'm not trying to change the world, I'm just trying to make it a little more colorful"

Kesha, Musician

Kesha

"Laughter is an instant vacation"

Milton Berle, Comedian

"The more the heart is sated with joy, the more it becomes insatiable"

Gabrielle Roy, Author

Gabrielle Roy

"Not by appointment do we meet delight Or joy; they heed not our expectancy; But round some corner of the streets of life they of a sudden greet us with a smile"

Gerald Massey, Poet

Gerald Massey

"When I found out I was in the top 13 I was freaking out and crying it was such a joyous moment for me"

Thia Megia, Musician

Thia Megia

"Laughter is a tranquilizer with no side effects"

Arnold H. Glasow, Businessman

Arnold H. Glasow

"Man cannot live without joy; therefore when he is deprived of true spiritual joys it is necessary that he become addicted to carnal pleasures"

Thomas Aquinas, Theologian

Thomas Aquinas

"Find a place inside where there's joy, and the joy will burn out the pain"

Joseph Campbell, Author

Joseph Campbell

"Laughter need not be cut out of anything, since it improves everything"

James Thurber, Comedian

James Thurber

"Joy descends gently upon us like the evening dew, and does not patter down like a hailstorm"

Jean Paul, Author

Jean Paul

"Cary Grant was one of the most marvelous men I've ever met"

Jayne Mansfield, Actress

"Joy is what happens to us when we allow ourselves to recognize how good things really are"

Marianne Williamson, Author

"We are staunch and true and in rather a champagne mood"

Franz Marc, Artist

"I love everything that's beautiful. A lot of things"

Ursula Andress, Actress

Ursula Andress

"I wake up laughing. Yes, I wake up in the morning and there I am just laughing my head off"

Bruce Willis, Actor

Bruce Willis

"I'd never even been to Wrigley Field. I never even enjoyed baseball that much, but I loved being there, the crowd was lovely, and they all sang with me!"

Bea Arthur, Actress

Bea Arthur

"Laughter drives shouting away"

Indra Devi, Celebrity

"Everywhere across whatever sorrows of which our life is woven, some radiant joy will gaily flash past"

Nikolai Gogol, Writer

Nikolai Gogol

"How sweet it is!"

Jackie Gleason, Actor

"Life is one long jubilee"

Ira Gershwin, Musician

"The joy late coming late departs"

Lewis J. Bates

"One of the most beautiful things in the world I've ever seen or heard is people laughing, even when there seems to be so little reason for them to laugh"

D. L. Hughley, Actor

"Laughter is the brush that sweeps away the cobwebs of your heart"

Mort Walker, Artist

"At the height of laughter, the universe is flung into a kaleidoscope of new possibilities"

Jean Houston, Author

"Grief can take care if itself, but to get the full value of a joy you must have somebody to divide it with"

Mark Twain, Author

Mark Twain

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